Kyung-Mi Chung
ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to examine whether six color-gender-labeled pet robots draw repulsive responses from participants based on the measurement of five key concepts in human-robot interaction: anthropomorphism, animacy, likeability, perceived intelligence, and perceived safety. In total, 60 male and 69 female undergraduate and graduate students aged 18 to 37 years participated in the experiment. The results show that anthropomorphism and animacy can be conceptualized as a composite and extended concept. In a plot of results, all visual targets were positioned at the top of the upward curve, and not plotted in the valley. Another finding of this study is that, when confronted with a pet robot PLEO with manipulated gender-related social cues, participants responded automatically to the robots, applying human-human social attraction rules to them.
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- How Anthropomorphism Affects Human Perception of Color-Gender-Labeled Pet Robots
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